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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter discusses about the Time and Place of Study, the Subject and Object of Study, the Method of Research, the Writer’s Role on the Study, the
Research Design, the Procedures of Classroom Action Research, the Technique of Collecting Data, the Technique of Data Analysis, the Trustworthiness of study and
the Criteria of the Action Success.
A. The Time and Place of Study
This Classroom Action Research was conducted more or less in two months, started from 4
th
of April up to 6
th
of May 2011. And it takes place at Vocational School of Bangun Nusantara 2 Cipondoh, Tangerang, precisely at the first grade of
Accountancy class, academic year 20102011.
B. The Subject and Object of Study
1. Subject of the study The subject of study is students at the first grade of Accountancy class at
Vocational School of Bangun Nusantara 2, academic year 20102011 which is located in Cipondoh, Tangerang. The number of students in this class is 33 persons which
consist of 28 girls and 5 boys. The writer chooses this class based on the English teacher’s assumption that this class has the lowest score in English grammar test
among other first grade classes. Finally, the writer thinks that they need an appropriate technique in learning English grammar in order to improve their
achievement; in this case the writer limited the material about Degrees of Comparison.
2. Object of the study The object of study is Substitution Drills technique which is hoped to improve
the students’ achievement in learning English grammar especially in Degrees of Comparison.
C. The Method of Research
The method which is used by the writer in this research is Classroom Action Research CAR, it is derived from the root action research. It seems a complex
research. As Jack C. Richards and David Nunan said in their book: Action research is not simply research grafted onto practice. Rather, it
represents a particular attitude on the part of the practitioner, an attitude in which the practitioner is engaged in critical reflection on ideas, the informed
application and experimentation of ideas in practice, and the critical evaluation of the outcomes of such application.
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Jack C. Richards and David Nunan, Second Language Teacher Education, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. 63
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